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john boehner said he would bring the bill up before the end of the year. take his word for that. >> there is no better example of the failure of this congress than the farm bill. congressman berg is a member of the house. the fed was able to tax a farm bill in the senate. it went over to the house of representatives. when we talked about a gridlock, it was the republican party. it was the fight between john boehner and eric cantor to move it forward. i liken this effort to wiki up in the middle of the fourth quarter shooting the ball as an as you you are already down. when we talk about the discharge position, how many votes of republicans are on the discharge submission? their eight. they're over 40 democrat votes. you cannot claim any modest effort. the number one job of someone in the senate in congress to pass a farm bill. now we have an uncertainty because of the gridlock in the house of representatives. >> you can respond. >> that is simply not accurate. the last farm bill expired as well. your accusations and me, i hope they do not apply to our form
john boehner said he would bring the bill up before the end of the year. take his word for that. >> there is no better example of the failure of this congress than the farm bill. congressman berg is a member of the house. the fed was able to tax a farm bill in the senate. it went over to the house of representatives. when we talked about a gridlock, it was the republican party. it was the fight between john boehner and eric cantor to move it forward. i liken this effort to wiki up in the...
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my opponent would not let boehner make a deal. now we're left with the sequestration. with the looming cuts at the end of the year that our economy cannot sustain is because of the extremism. >> sequestration was obama's idea. it had nothing to do with the house. i brought the legislation to the house floor to stave off sequestration. i am taking action. >> we are talking about spending cuts that will affect defense and social programs. it is a good point to start popping off for medicare and health care. your question goes to mr. murphy. >> we have seen different numbers on what the paul ryan plan would do in the fact to increase costs to seniors, anywhere from $6,350 to about $200 a month. what kind of number can we look at and say this is what a cut will look like under this plan because of a large area of the budget that needs to be looked at? >> that is the kaiser family foundation study. under the ryan plant, 60% of seniors will face cost increases. this is something that needs to be addressed. under their plan, we end medic
my opponent would not let boehner make a deal. now we're left with the sequestration. with the looming cuts at the end of the year that our economy cannot sustain is because of the extremism. >> sequestration was obama's idea. it had nothing to do with the house. i brought the legislation to the house floor to stave off sequestration. i am taking action. >> we are talking about spending cuts that will affect defense and social programs. it is a good point to start popping off for...
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and john boehner -- release specifically data information. that is fantastic and might take awhile to happen but to have the leadership committed to it is important. on a related note, docks.house.gov has been underappreciate it in how much it offers. if you look at the active bills on the floor it says for each bill it gives you a different format to download or get a developer to build a web site that gives people access to it. on top of that it shows you the time of day to the minute that the bill was posted and it is extraordinary that it says 1:23 a.m. because the rules committee sees the schedule and how they function but they give you to the minute the time the bill was posted and that is a demonstration that they are saying we are here for you to judge us and to know how long the bill is online and it was a response to political pressure and coming up with a better way for things to work and recognize electronic documents are a function of the official version of the house rules. wasn't everything we wanted. the rallying cry was 72 ho
and john boehner -- release specifically data information. that is fantastic and might take awhile to happen but to have the leadership committed to it is important. on a related note, docks.house.gov has been underappreciate it in how much it offers. if you look at the active bills on the floor it says for each bill it gives you a different format to download or get a developer to build a web site that gives people access to it. on top of that it shows you the time of day to the minute that...
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. >> do you think there is enough conservatives to bring trouble for speaker john boehner when he brings something to the floor? >> absolutely. that is the biggest lesson of the 112 congress. he does not control them. people are adamant about holding themselves firm. i do not see how he brokers any deal. i don't just mean in a lame duck. if the make about the house is not change radically, i do not see how he broke is still in the 113 either. >> are they considering >> they would certainly support it. there of this mind that there is something you want to avoid. the senate is concerned about this. the political calculation is he will probably be able to get the vote if you wanted to. he could rely on did a cripes. this could be catastrophic for him. >> are the conservatives, are there enough and services that are open to what they gang of 8 yes said to cut something bipartisan, are there enough conservatives to be open to this? >> it really depends somewhat they come up with. some of the freshmen are down right dismissive. compromise is a dirty word to a lot of the more two-party mind me
. >> do you think there is enough conservatives to bring trouble for speaker john boehner when he brings something to the floor? >> absolutely. that is the biggest lesson of the 112 congress. he does not control them. people are adamant about holding themselves firm. i do not see how he brokers any deal. i don't just mean in a lame duck. if the make about the house is not change radically, i do not see how he broke is still in the 113 either. >> are they considering >>...
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and john boehner will have to think about his feature as speaker. if he wants to stand with the tea party or stand with the vast moderate majority of people in this country who believe that there have to be some revenues, and there have to be some cuts, and there have to be entitlement reforms. there's a rational, sane middle road out there. if romney wins, then he will have to deal with the democrats in the senate which he will want to do, and he will have to say to his right wing as he has implicitly over the last three or four weeks that no, guys, we're not going to have this extreme policy. and as for tax rates mattered, i mean, i think we all live through the great depression of the 1990s after bill clinton raised taxes. and the great depression of the 1980s after ronald reagan raised taxes, especially on business, three times. >> we're going to have to see stop -- no, we're going to have stop, take a break. >>> when we come back, we'll talk inevitably about all this, but also going forward what's going to get this economy moving again. [ male
and john boehner will have to think about his feature as speaker. if he wants to stand with the tea party or stand with the vast moderate majority of people in this country who believe that there have to be some revenues, and there have to be some cuts, and there have to be entitlement reforms. there's a rational, sane middle road out there. if romney wins, then he will have to deal with the democrats in the senate which he will want to do, and he will have to say to his right wing as he has...
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didn't really need to go full john boehner on the spray tan. but a clean cut hispanic american like julian castro or ricky martin, oh my goodness, what if you were just a little bit gay, mitt? think of all the advantages that would provide. no, wait for it, what if you had a vagina? if you were a gay latina this election would be in the bag for you. unfortunately for you, mitt, you were cursed with the hard knock life of growing up as the son of a wealthy governor and auto executive. and when your father paid your way through private school and bought your first house, i can't imagine how difficult that must have been for you. but the truth is the reason why latinos aren't voting for you is because your policies suck. being latino wouldn't win you the election. but saying jokingly that you wish you were might actually lose it for you. >> that video is part of a series called actually, which is an effort to use comedians to fact check mitt romney. the series is done by the american bridge pac which is a democratic-leaning pac and the jewish coun
didn't really need to go full john boehner on the spray tan. but a clean cut hispanic american like julian castro or ricky martin, oh my goodness, what if you were just a little bit gay, mitt? think of all the advantages that would provide. no, wait for it, what if you had a vagina? if you were a gay latina this election would be in the bag for you. unfortunately for you, mitt, you were cursed with the hard knock life of growing up as the son of a wealthy governor and auto executive. and when...
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i will not vote for anybody of john boehner's crowd. host: ok. a little bit more insight into the polling. a rasmussen poll fromepo the weekend -- is more from the vice-president on the weekends and florida. [video clip] >> they're spending a lot of time telling you what barack obama and joe biden are against and what we have done. the attack everything. the truth of the matter is that nowhere is it more clear what they would do that in medicare. let me start by giving you a few specific examples. to make a examples. number one, they have laid out clearly, they say, that what barack obama and i did was we endangered medicare, that we stole money from medicare and we did this to get obamacare and all this. you see it in ads and everything they say. nothing could be further from the truth. everyone of you in this room who is on medicare or has a mother or father on medicare knows that since barack obama acted, your parents and those of you on medicare have more benefits than before. host: back to your calls on whether the vice presidential nominees
i will not vote for anybody of john boehner's crowd. host: ok. a little bit more insight into the polling. a rasmussen poll fromepo the weekend -- is more from the vice-president on the weekends and florida. [video clip] >> they're spending a lot of time telling you what barack obama and joe biden are against and what we have done. the attack everything. the truth of the matter is that nowhere is it more clear what they would do that in medicare. let me start by giving you a few specific...
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. >> he is not the type of person that can, you know, invite boehner and the republicans to dinner at the white house every night and schmooze them like lbj or clinton could. that's not him. he doesn't even want to do that. so he has this grander vision of what he is and what the world should be, but that doesn't mean he can bring other people along with him to that place, because he doesn't have that personity. >> narrator: meanwhile, therey. was a furious public reaction. >> barack obama was electable because he was not too black... oebama lying to the people, deceiving the people... the election of obama will be a giant step backward in race yilations... >> narrator: and that summer, anger only grew. >> that he was more carlton banks than suge knight... >> narrator: over heth care reform... >> rammed it down america's ehroat... >> narrator: ...the economy, the bank bailouts, and the president himself. >> if you call half the country rast, what's that going to do for your fundr'ssing?si >> this was all about barack obama himself. >> i thought he wae obably born in this country. now
. >> he is not the type of person that can, you know, invite boehner and the republicans to dinner at the white house every night and schmooze them like lbj or clinton could. that's not him. he doesn't even want to do that. so he has this grander vision of what he is and what the world should be, but that doesn't mean he can bring other people along with him to that place, because he doesn't have that personity. >> narrator: meanwhile, therey. was a furious public reaction. >>...
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haster and john boehner are here to stop that from happening. jenna: a race we should certainly watch. thank you. jon: interesting statistics in the latest gallop poll it shows governor romney surging ahead of president obama among likely voters. in the first week of october the candidates were tied 48-48. by the second week governor romney was ahead by two points, 49-47. now the latest numbers show governor romney up by six points 51-45. so with his support slipping president obama rushed from their second debate back to the campaign trail, attacking his opponent yesterday this iowa. >> owe, iowa, you know, everybody here has heard of the new deal? you've heard of the fair deal? you've heard of the square deal? mitt romney is trying to sell you a sketchy deal. jon: let's talk about it with bob cusack, managing editor of "the hill." i'm curious about that language. sketchy deal, what is supposed to be catchy about that? >> he's trying to portray mitt romney as not credible. you can't take him seriously. the debate performance he had in the first
haster and john boehner are here to stop that from happening. jenna: a race we should certainly watch. thank you. jon: interesting statistics in the latest gallop poll it shows governor romney surging ahead of president obama among likely voters. in the first week of october the candidates were tied 48-48. by the second week governor romney was ahead by two points, 49-47. now the latest numbers show governor romney up by six points 51-45. so with his support slipping president obama rushed from...
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then, how speaker john boehner contains for mitt romney in new hampshire. that is followed by a former president bill clinton campaigning for obama in las vegas. >> 13 years ago today, c-span radio was created by the cable tv industry is another way to access our public affairs programming. you can listen to c-span radio in the washington baltimore area at 90.1 fm. on xm satellite radio, channel 119, were online at c-span radio.org. now, you can listen on your smart phone with the same c-span radio app for iphone, blackberry and android devices. >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal", look at the upcoming presidential debate. our guest is frank donatelli. chairman of the a group that trains republican candidates for office. in the video of mitt romney talking about the 47% of americans that mr. romney says don't pay taxes. and we will get medicare's growing costs with emily etheridge, a health care reporter from rational quarterly. "washington journal" is live everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> will do with the president obama did for the bu
then, how speaker john boehner contains for mitt romney in new hampshire. that is followed by a former president bill clinton campaigning for obama in las vegas. >> 13 years ago today, c-span radio was created by the cable tv industry is another way to access our public affairs programming. you can listen to c-span radio in the washington baltimore area at 90.1 fm. on xm satellite radio, channel 119, were online at c-span radio.org. now, you can listen on your smart phone with the same...
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arlen specter could teach john boehner a thing or three. john is calling from state college, pennsylvania. how are you swan? >> caller: how are you? >> bill: you got to know the man, he was a constituent for a while. >> caller: i met arlen a few times when i was at aflcio. he was chief of staff and had me thrown out of his office. >> bill: what? >> caller: had me thrown out of his office because he was a man from new york and i said anyone from pennsylvania's qualified to do the job. i got bounced. i don't think there will ever be a moderate, because these tea baggers something else, like nazis, but i don't want to give nazis a bad name. >> were you in the labor movement there? >> caller: oh, yes a union officer, yes. >> bill: again, i know members of several unions who told me over the years right no, in pennsylvania, where was arlen specter, because he's been with us and he was a solid labor vote all of those years. ok john, good to hear from you andy -- we can do without the nazi reference, thank you. andy in delaware. >> caller: i think
arlen specter could teach john boehner a thing or three. john is calling from state college, pennsylvania. how are you swan? >> caller: how are you? >> bill: you got to know the man, he was a constituent for a while. >> caller: i met arlen a few times when i was at aflcio. he was chief of staff and had me thrown out of his office. >> bill: what? >> caller: had me thrown out of his office because he was a man from new york and i said anyone from pennsylvania's...
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i think you're going to see john boehner. he's an adult and there's no question about that he knows what needs to be done. if necessary he will sacrifice being elected speaker of the next time around to do the right thing. he had the president can get together and the president will give on entitlements and taxes in the sense that the race will come down there will be enough left over from the so-called loopholes. then the senate is where it has to start. you will see lamar alexander or our corner and others come together in the framework. they can put the frame work together by you can't initiate it has to be initiated in the house that that will be the framework and again in this one of the you want to say kind of thing and then that can be where the folks can rally around. you have to set a framework in the lame-duck session. you can't go to the end of the year because a will start to smell but it takes time to get it right. you have to do corporate and personal taxes to get their. you can't do one without the other. it wi
i think you're going to see john boehner. he's an adult and there's no question about that he knows what needs to be done. if necessary he will sacrifice being elected speaker of the next time around to do the right thing. he had the president can get together and the president will give on entitlements and taxes in the sense that the race will come down there will be enough left over from the so-called loopholes. then the senate is where it has to start. you will see lamar alexander or our...
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it was a fight between cancer and boehner to move this forward. congressman berg is talked about his effort to move the farm bill forward. i like and that effort to waking up in the middle of the fourth quarter shooting the ball as often as you can but you are 50 points down. you didn't sign up for the ag committee and you said you supported the farm bill and there's no evidence he tried and when we talk about the discharge position how many votes from the discharge position? there were nine including yours and over 40 democratic votes. so you cannot look at any kind of activity that you had on the farm bill and claim any amount of success or any amount of legitimate effort. the number one job of someone in the united states senate, someone in the congress is to pass the farm bill and now we have got uncertainty because of the gridlock in the house of representatives and not in congress. >> you response? berg: certainly it's simply not accurate. the last farm bill expired as well so your observations of me, i hope they don't apply to our former se
it was a fight between cancer and boehner to move this forward. congressman berg is talked about his effort to move the farm bill forward. i like and that effort to waking up in the middle of the fourth quarter shooting the ball as often as you can but you are 50 points down. you didn't sign up for the ag committee and you said you supported the farm bill and there's no evidence he tried and when we talk about the discharge position how many votes from the discharge position? there were nine...
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it is john boehner's fall. it is mitch mcconnell's fault. it is anybody's fall to but mine. he says, give me another four years, i will figure it out. i am tired of waiting for you to figure it out. [applause] i feel bad for the president. i really do. he does not know anything about leading. he has never let anything in his life. i do not want to be disrespectful to any legislators who might be out here, but, being in the legislature does not make you a leader. then he became a united states senator, and he never showed upkeep -- he barely showed up to take the oath of office. then he spent the next two years. he had been a state legislator. he had never had anything in his life -- he does not know how to lead. we have watched what he has been like for the net last four years. he is lucky man wandering around a dark room with his hands up against the wall looking for the light switch of leadership. he cannot find it. in the next 18 days -- [applause] blindly walking around the white house looking for a clue. you know, the unfortunate thing for the president is this, there a
it is john boehner's fall. it is mitch mcconnell's fault. it is anybody's fall to but mine. he says, give me another four years, i will figure it out. i am tired of waiting for you to figure it out. [applause] i feel bad for the president. i really do. he does not know anything about leading. he has never let anything in his life. i do not want to be disrespectful to any legislators who might be out here, but, being in the legislature does not make you a leader. then he became a united states...
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you gate final statement. >> i find it interesting you mention john boehner. he'll be in central illinois headlining a fundraising for my opponent in champagne. it's example after example of what happens when you turn over a government to the corporations. you get a medicare prescription drug bill. uncle sam -- we blew $2 trillion with that. you get the subsidizes every year to oil companies. our tax dollars we give to oil companies because these guys take check from exxonmobil. >> moderator: thank you. our next question. illinois state university we had numerous questions submitted be et student. we'll get to the number one question later on in the debate. the next question is the top question from the student. >> on behalf of the students i want to thank you for participating in the debate. one of the top questions that the students e-mailed me about to ask is when it comes to reducing the deficit, there's two ways to reduce it, cuts and or revenue. our cuts enough would you cut would you even vote for a tax increase for revenue? >> moderator: candidate davi
you gate final statement. >> i find it interesting you mention john boehner. he'll be in central illinois headlining a fundraising for my opponent in champagne. it's example after example of what happens when you turn over a government to the corporations. you get a medicare prescription drug bill. uncle sam -- we blew $2 trillion with that. you get the subsidizes every year to oil companies. our tax dollars we give to oil companies because these guys take check from exxonmobil. >>...
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during the negotiations between speaker john boehner and the president, mellon said that broke down on the basis of entitlement reform. i don't know single news report that said that. every time we have come to a deadlock and getting deficit reduction, it has been revenues that have been the sticking point. i think i am certain that democrats are willing to step up to the plight of entitlement reform provided it does not change the safety net, cut the benefits, there are so many ways to save money. it is tough medicine but we are willing to swallow it. >> can you say what impact your position will have during a lame-duck session? do you believe a deal can be had before january 1. >> yes, i absolutely believe a deal can be done before january 1. i am not part of the negotiations but i have stayed in active touch with both sides of the aisle. i think there is a genuine agreement that people want to come to the deal. i have tried to think about what has prevented us. people have been trying for two years. i take off my hat to the group of six and a group of eight and i like them very much
during the negotiations between speaker john boehner and the president, mellon said that broke down on the basis of entitlement reform. i don't know single news report that said that. every time we have come to a deadlock and getting deficit reduction, it has been revenues that have been the sticking point. i think i am certain that democrats are willing to step up to the plight of entitlement reform provided it does not change the safety net, cut the benefits, there are so many ways to save...
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i do not consider eric cantor or boehner tea party. the thing is, you are taking an old-line, conservative republicans and putting a new label on it called the tea party. the movement -- i do not think it exists anymore. we have had conservative republicans for a really long time. find me a tea party boater that voted for obama -- no way. or they voted for john kerry or al gore -- there are not any. i think we will -- would a president romney be able to stand up to the more conservative elements in his party? good questions. what president obama stand-up on entitlement changes and domestic spending? i think we are looking at two sides of the same coin. they are both problematic. >> the voters get the joke -- that is the problem. we keep coming back to who will be able to do that work. to your point about him talking to the center, this is the mitt romney that the obama campaign did not want to face. they did not want to make this about the flip flopping mitt romney -- a lot of people would say, that is not that bad, not that conservati
i do not consider eric cantor or boehner tea party. the thing is, you are taking an old-line, conservative republicans and putting a new label on it called the tea party. the movement -- i do not think it exists anymore. we have had conservative republicans for a really long time. find me a tea party boater that voted for obama -- no way. or they voted for john kerry or al gore -- there are not any. i think we will -- would a president romney be able to stand up to the more conservative...
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. >> we hod john boehner tell us that he -- he said i never read those platforms. they don't -- this is after the convention -- i don't read them. get it all on one page. he said nobody reads the platform. >> he didn't realize, we did. >> what can we look for the next two weeks between now and election day? what are your anticipations. >> fasten your seatbelt. >> i think you've seen the silly rhetoric we're going to get for the next two weeks, but more than that, what you're not seeing is what is going on,. , and that is the get out the vote effort, and they're doing some done both campaigns are doing something that i don't understand. the 14-year-olds who can talk to the entire world with a tweet and this way of having them all tajh to their friend on the social network, and there's a lot of this going out there that is just not obvious to the cameras' eye, and that's where this election is right now. this is about -- to me this has always been a bay's lex. this is -- base election. who is more excited. president obama had a storybook turnout, election team and sy
. >> we hod john boehner tell us that he -- he said i never read those platforms. they don't -- this is after the convention -- i don't read them. get it all on one page. he said nobody reads the platform. >> he didn't realize, we did. >> what can we look for the next two weeks between now and election day? what are your anticipations. >> fasten your seatbelt. >> i think you've seen the silly rhetoric we're going to get for the next two weeks, but more than that,...
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boehner. speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, the reverend andrew walton from the capitol hill presbyterian church from washington, d.c. the chaplain: let us pray. god of the universe, known by many names and worshiped in numerous ways, yet present in common experiences of life, we come in thanks and gratitude for the gift of democratic process. with which the members of this body are elected to serve by representing the particular needs of their communities as well as the common good of the nation. in this season of discernment and decision, may all who are involved in the electoral process from candidates to campaign staffs to voters, to poll workers be filled with shared imagination. collective wisdom, and mutual compassion that transcend self-interest, personal gain, and individual pride. may we ultimately find peace, rest, and hope not in institutional systems but in the sure knowledge of proeffectic words that the arc of the universe not only bends t
boehner. speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, the reverend andrew walton from the capitol hill presbyterian church from washington, d.c. the chaplain: let us pray. god of the universe, known by many names and worshiped in numerous ways, yet present in common experiences of life, we come in thanks and gratitude for the gift of democratic process. with which the members of this body are elected to serve by representing...
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i recognize, boehner, the type of somebody to negotiability with and i can work with. and -- saying just vote for my stuff. it's not very persuasive. >> all right. thank you both for coming. we got close to the president and went back to the -- couldn't get there. so we work to do, pete, we really do in moving beyond the rhetoric and hopefully the election will make absolutely clear what the american people are hoping for us to do the way we tackle the fiscal cliff and future tax reform. thank you both for joining us. [applause] [applause] >> we talked in the what's panel a lot about 2013 and what's going to happen i want to go back to the end of the year. what do you both feel like is likely to actually happen then, and what are some areas where you can see a comprise happening? >> doug, you want to start? >> sure. i think it's important to recognize that really three different issues involved, and the first is the literally the fiscal cliff. the end of the tax increases and spending cuts that will happen on auto pilot. which i view as a tremendous threat to the econo
i recognize, boehner, the type of somebody to negotiability with and i can work with. and -- saying just vote for my stuff. it's not very persuasive. >> all right. thank you both for coming. we got close to the president and went back to the -- couldn't get there. so we work to do, pete, we really do in moving beyond the rhetoric and hopefully the election will make absolutely clear what the american people are hoping for us to do the way we tackle the fiscal cliff and future tax reform....
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john boehner has been focusing his efforts with his congressional leadership fund, the super pac on his friends and allies in tough races like in iowa and ohio. both of these leaders have super pacs but are out there on the trail. host: we can take a look at the senate. looking back six years ago when these members took office, we saw a lot of democrats com e e in. so many democratic seats this year. guest: you sort of pay the price six years later when the seats are up for re-election. democrats have to defend 23 of the seats. the ratio isn't all that different in 2014. everything comes around. it will be republicans in 2016 that have to defend more seats. a lot of these freshmen have done pretty well. jon tester is the most probable member of the freshman class. clara mccaskill in missouri probably held that honor until she pulled a week challenger. some like sherrod brown in ohio, we might of put him in there, at the top of the list for 1012. has -- for 2012. he has run a good campaign. and the were from nine points to five. -- anywhere from nine points to five points. host: john wol
john boehner has been focusing his efforts with his congressional leadership fund, the super pac on his friends and allies in tough races like in iowa and ohio. both of these leaders have super pacs but are out there on the trail. host: we can take a look at the senate. looking back six years ago when these members took office, we saw a lot of democrats com e e in. so many democratic seats this year. guest: you sort of pay the price six years later when the seats are up for re-election....
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we've seen obama try it to work with boehner and reid and the results are less than impressive. >> isn't the choice not the debate performance and where we're going? wouldn't it be the argument for the obama campaign that the housing market is moving, the automobile industry has been revived, the consumer confidence is up, unemployment has gone down steadily in every way to look at that data and that mitt romney's policy when is it comes to jobs brings us back to the very types of policies that got us into this situation? >> romney is going to have to do what he can to say, look, i'm not george w. bush. the entire message from obama from the beginning of the campaign has been the policies of bush got us into this -- >> how is he not george w. bush in terms of his economic policy? >> because he's been a much more successful record in business. george w. bush was owner of a baseball team and went straight to being governor of texas. mitt romney is an expert on turn-around. he can point on the olympics and all of the different cases and right now he can point to a turn-around campaign. no l
we've seen obama try it to work with boehner and reid and the results are less than impressive. >> isn't the choice not the debate performance and where we're going? wouldn't it be the argument for the obama campaign that the housing market is moving, the automobile industry has been revived, the consumer confidence is up, unemployment has gone down steadily in every way to look at that data and that mitt romney's policy when is it comes to jobs brings us back to the very types of...
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boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication from the sergeant at arms. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, as you are aware, the time previously appointed for the next meeting of the house is 10:00 a.m. on tuesday, october 30, 2012. this is to notify you pursuant to clause 12-c of rule 1, of an imminent impairment of the place of reconvening at that time. the impairment is due to the weather. signed respectfully, paul d. irving, sergeant at arms. the speaker pro tempore: under clause 12-c of rule 1, the speakers notified members accordingly. the prayer today will be offered by our guest chaplain of the washington theological union here in washington, d.c. the chaplain: lord, we pray for the victims of hurricane sandy. especially those who lost their lives, the displaced elderly, those with children >> the millions -- those children, the millions without power and we pray in the past we responded generously those who are in
boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication from the sergeant at arms. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, as you are aware, the time previously appointed for the next meeting of the house is 10:00 a.m. on tuesday, october 30, 2012. this is to notify you pursuant to clause 12-c of rule 1, of an imminent impairment of the place of reconvening at that time. the impairment is due to the...
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bipartisan recommendations of his fiscal commission to wither and die and that he and speaker john boehner failed to seal a fiscal deal in the summer of 2011. mr. obama alienated congress and business leaders by isolating himself inside a tight white house circle that manages to be both arrogant and thin-skinned. but economic headwinds and an uncompromising opposition explain some of these failures and render that much more impressive the substantial accomplishments of mr. obama's first term." well, that's one way of endorsing a president. >> wes, what do you think? >> well, you know, it's interesting because it actually has -- if you read on in the editorial, in the endorsement, it actually has a lot of shades of colin powell's endorsement. where basically he talks about it's not even so much about -- people understand the challenges the president faces, but it's not just about mitt romney entering the white house. it's the entire team and the entire establishment that mr. romney would then bring into the white house. and so how exactly when you think about the challenges that the country
bipartisan recommendations of his fiscal commission to wither and die and that he and speaker john boehner failed to seal a fiscal deal in the summer of 2011. mr. obama alienated congress and business leaders by isolating himself inside a tight white house circle that manages to be both arrogant and thin-skinned. but economic headwinds and an uncompromising opposition explain some of these failures and render that much more impressive the substantial accomplishments of mr. obama's first...